Luk Vervenne is an Internet entrepreneur and founder and CEO of Synergetics. Luk is co-founder of Netvision NV (1994, now Ubizen) and BelSign/Globalsign, Europe’s first digital certificate authority (1996). He comes from the ICT and business publishing world, where he was an editor and an editor-in-chief of several business and industry-related magazines from 1988 till 1994.
Luk is also the business development manager of STARlab of the Free University of Brussels, and is successful in creating synergies between business and academia, resulting in pragmatic technological innovations.
He is co-founder and co-director of HR-XML Europe, the European e-learning Industry Group and the European Institute for e-learning. As a competency- driven innovator, Luk has set up a network of world class experts, making Synergetics an industry thought leader in the field of competencies and context-driven semantics.